Annalee Wentworth Burns was a historian and child of the Texas Hill Country. Burns wrote a weekly column for the Uvalde Leader News for 40 years called “Hill Country Housewives” in which she offered ...
I knew I was home when, halfway through a 13-hour Amtrak train trip, we passed rows upon rows of tobacco yellowing in the August sun. The leaves waved lazily as we sped past, welcoming me back to ...